Father 'In Shock' Over Response to Facebook Plea

Jesse Berlin (middle), surrounded by his siblings, Jared and Nicole. John Berlin

On Wednesday, John Berlin taped and posted an emotional plea to Facebook to let him see the "Look Back" video for his son, Jesse Berlin, who died two years earlier at the age of 22. Two days later, it currently has nearly 2 million views on YouTube.

"I'm still in shock, to be honest," Berlin, 46, of St. Louis, Missouri, told NBC News. "I'm just an average guy working a 40 hour week, trying to make a living. To get that kind of response ... honestly, I'm still trying to deal with it."

"I was just thinking that sometimes people post videos and they go viral. What did I have to lose?" he said.

It worked. The video received shares on Facebook and Reddit, picked up by local and national news outlets and finally, Facebook got back to him. The social network said it would create Jesse's "Look Back" video.